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- Best for minimal effort: Quick Prep, Slow Cook by Charlotte Pike, £14.05
- Best for vegetarian gradual cooking: The Green Slow Cooker by Heather Whinney, £17.99
- Best for meal plans: What’s For Dinner? In One Pot by Sarah Rossi, £14.99
- Best for gradual cooker freshmen: The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook by Clare Andrews, £11
- Best for wholesome gradual cooker recipes: Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book by Nathan Anthony, £11
- Best gradual cooker bible: Good Food Ultimate Slow Cooker Recipes, £13.59
- Best for straightforward wholesome gradual cooker recipes: Bored of Lunch: Healthy Slow Cooker Even Easier by Nathan Anthony, £10
- Best for vegan gradual cooker recipes: Vegan Slow Cooker by Saskia Sidey, £7
- Best for all-year-round gradual cooking: Cook Slow: Light & Healthy by Dean Edwards, £14.19
Best gradual cooker cookbooks to purchase in 2025
Quick Prep, Slow Cook by Charlotte Pike
Best for minimal effort
A perk of a gradual cooker is that it will probably do the work with out you needing to spend time hovering over it – however this guide actually dials up the hands-off time with every recipe solely needing 10 minutes prep. Trained chef and meals author Charlotte Pike has numerous inspiration to shake up a drained recipe rotation – uncover warming veggie stews, braised meat, pasta dishes, a complete chapter of curries, and hearty puddings.
Must-try recipe: Lamb birria tacos
Available from:
Waterstones (£16.99)
Amazon (£14.05)
The Green Slow Cooker by Heather Whinney
Best for vegetarians
When you consider gradual cooking, you may instantly image stews, casseroles and slow-cooked meat, but it surely’s a flexible gadget for vegetarians, too. This guide is stuffed with meat-free gradual cooker recipes and is structured that can assist you use all of it yr spherical, so select from the ‘Light and Bright’ chapter in summer season and the ‘Warming and Hearty’ chapter on chilly winter days. You won’t consider utilizing your gradual cooker in summer season, but it surely’s a good way to keep away from getting sizzling within the kitchen – assume saffron rice with asparagus or spring inexperienced minestrone.
Must-try recipe: Greek-style stuffed peppers with rice and tomatoes
Available from:
Waterstones (£22)
Amazon (£17.99)
‘What’s For Dinner? In One Pot’ by Sarah Rossi
Best for meal plans
We know folks love a meal plan and this intelligent guide has 100 recipes, plus 10 meal plans with purchasing lists. Each meal plan contains six dinners (leaving one night time for some flexibility or leftovers), a breakfast for the weekend and a deal with to bake. Every recipe within the guide makes use of considered one of three pans: gradual cooker, a sauté pan/casserole dish or a baking tray – so that you don’t want tons of apparatus. Rossi focuses on brief substances lists and accessible household meals – assume turkey taco rice, creamy gnocchi traybake or nacho loaded fries. We notably like that even the gradual cooker recipes have directions for if you do not have one, and there’s loads of further recommendations on each web page.
Must attempt recipe: Sticky ginger ham
Available from:
Waterstones (£20)
Amazon (£14.99)
The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook by Clare Andrews
Best for gradual cooker freshmen
If you have simply purchased a gradual cooker and are not positive the place to start out, this gradual cooker bible is an effective place to start out. As effectively as 80 recipes, there is a helpful normal information on how you can strategy gradual cooking completely different substances comparable to jacket potatoes, a complete hen or lamb chops. Recipes embody acquainted gradual cooker staples in addition to new concepts comparable to a veggie Lancashire hotpot, entire roast hen cooked in cider and crimson Thai prawn noodles.
Must attempt recipe: Whole hen cooked in cider
Available from:
Amazon (£11)
Waterstones (£20)
Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book by Nathan Anthony
Best for wholesome gradual cooker recipes
While gradual cookers might typically be related to cosy consolation meals, Nathan Anthony’s strategy focuses on ‘calorie-conscious’ meals. Letting the gradual cooker do the work means recipe strategies are brief (often simply 1-2 steps) and simply approachable even for novice cooks. If you’re attempting to be wholesome, there’s clear calorie data for each recipe, together with any further facet dish suggestions. Chapters embody ‘Fakeaways’, ‘Weekday Dinners’ and ‘Feeding a Crowd’.
Must attempt recipe: Mango hen curry
Available from:
Amazon (£11)
Waterstones (£20)
Good Food: Ultimate Slow Cooker Recipes
Best gradual cooker bible
We needed to give a shoutout to our personal assortment of gradual cooker recipes. We’ve produced tons of of meal concepts over time and this assortment rounds up 150 of our favourites. Classics comparable to curries, chillis and hearty stews are coated together with new concepts and intelligent gradual cooked puddings.
Available from:
Amazon (£13.59)
Waterstones (£16.99)
Bored of Lunch: Healthy Slow Cooker Even Easier by Nathan Anthony
Best for straightforward wholesome gradual cooker recipes
Following on from his unique Healthy Slow Cooker guide above, Nathan Anthony returns with less difficult, wholesome gradual cooker concepts. Every recipe within the guide is beneath 500 energy, giving lighter twists on many easy traditional recipes. The spotlight of this guide is the ‘Meal prep, batch and freeze’ chapter giving concepts comparable to teriyaki beef bowls, saag aloo and creamy veggie bakes – batch cook dinner on the weekend after which eat healthily all week. The best recipes are additionally marked with a helpful emblem after they take simply 5 minutes or much less prep time.
Must attempt recipe: Sticky whisky BBQ ribs
Available from:
Amazon (£10)
Waterstones (£14.99)
Vegan Slow Cooker by Saskia Sidey
Best for vegan gradual cooker recipes
While gradual cookers are generally related to casseroles and enormous cuts of meat, this brief guide of 70 recipes reveals there’s loads of vegan methods to make use of one, too. Aside from chapters on breakfasts and candy treats, the 2 primary course chapters are cleverly divided into ‘3 hours or less’ and ‘More than 3 hours’, so you possibly can resolve simply how gradual you wish to cook dinner. Ingredients are acquainted and benefit from greens and spices reasonably than complicated vegan alternate options.
Must attempt recipe: Whole spiced cauliflower
Available from:
Amazon (£7)
Waterstones (£12.99)
Cook Slow: Light & Healthy by Dean Edwards
Best for all-year-round gradual cooking
On a mission to point out that gradual cooking doesn’t simply should be winter consolation meals, this assortment from Dean Edwards of more healthy, nourishing recipes goals that can assist you use your gradual cooker all yr spherical. There’s over 90 recipes and all even have typical oven strategies for useful comparability. Our highlights had been the recipes the place the gradual cooker supplies actual advantages, such because the vegan black bean ‘meatball’ marinara and ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ teriyaki beef. Recipes are additionally clearly labelled when gluten free, if that is helpful to you.
Must attempt recipe: Chipotle jackfruit tacos
Available from:
Amazon (£14.19)
Waterstones (£16.99)
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